Office-indicator



(No Model.)

W. H. NUDING;

OFFICE INDICATOR.

No. 267,575. Patented Nov. 14, 1882.

MENTOR \fi ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT OFFIc.

WILLIAM H. NUDING, OF DELPHQS, OHIO.

OFFICE-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,575, dated November 14:, 1882,

Application filed July 12, 1882. (N0 model.)

. a citizen of the United States and a resident of Delphos, in the county of Van Wert and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inOffice-Indicators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a plan view. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section.

My invention relates to improvements in indicators for ofices and other places of business; and is so constructed with pointers and other appliances as to convey in a simple and easy manner a variety of information, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

ln carrying out my invention .I employ a circular or other suitable frame, A, to receive and hold the dial B, which is sectioned by dividing-lines to form respectively an hourly, weekly, and monthly calendar, and a space for names of places. The hourly division of this calendaris preferably arranged so as to indi cate each half-hour in the day between the hours from 9 a. in. to 9 p. m., except the hour from 12 to 1, when one hour intervenes. To this frame A is hinged in the ordinary manner the door or frame 0, having the glass 0. In addition to the divisions referred to upon the dial there is also an independent division, 1), containing a list of names of places where the occupant is most likely to be during the absence from his office. a and b are indicators or pointers similar in construction to the hands of an ordinary clock secured to an arbor or bolt, 1, passing through the perforation in the center of the dial and provided at its rear end with a nut or other suitable fastening device. Upon the face of one of the hands or pointers is the word Is, and upon the other hand the words Will return or other words of suitable import.

E represents a slot in the upper face of the dial, through which the name of the owner maybe inserted.

The dial-frameis provided with an eye-strap, as shown, by which the said device may be hung upon a nail or book in anyconvenient .place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in an office-indicator, consisting of the frame A, having the dial B, with slot E for a name, the dial being divided into a weekly and monthly calendar and independent divisions for the reception of names of places and for the hours of the day, and hands having upon their faces indicating-words, and the door (3, having glass 0, all combined and adapted to operate substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. NUDING.

Witnesses:

EMERSON PRIDDY, DAVID W. DAVIS. 

